This worm had an interesting brown stripe along its back, which
included the tail. Looked like a Mohawk haircut. It was crawling around
the withered top of a spider lily in my back yard, perhaps looking for a
place to attach itself prior to morph into THIS.

I got a short video of this creature on my phone but forgot & turned it the wrong way. When I went back outside to redo the video the critter had vanished. So, apologies for making you turn sideways to view it.